The Ministry of Tourism, Civil Aviation, Sustainable Development and Culture, and the Carnival Development Corporation hosted a press conference earlier today (October 4, 2022) to announce activities to celebrate this country’s 43rd Anniversary of Independence. The activities will be held under the theme Our Resilience, Our Fortitude, Our People. Activities to celebrate this year’s Independence celebration include a Creative Arts Festival hosted by the Department of Culture and the Embassy of the Republic on Taiwan, dubbed, Spotlight Taiwan: Hairouna Fermosa Creative Arts Festival. Cultural Officer Maxine Browne says the festival aims to showcase Taiwan’s Presence in and contribution to this…
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Police Press Release Stemming from an incident that occurred on 21.08.20 at Byrea, Constable 884 Euwen Grant was arrested and charged with the offences of Aggravated Burglary and Assault Bodily Harm.Reports are that Constable Grant allegedly entered the dwelling house of a 30-year-old Security Guard as a trespasser and assaulted the virtual complainant causing Actual Bodily Harm. Constable Grant appeared at the Serious Offences Court on Monday, 03 October 2022 to answer the charges and pleaded not guilty. He was granted bail in the sum of $8000.00 with one surety. He was ordered to surrender all travel documents and stop…
The UWI Open Campus, St. Vincent and the Grenadines library went live on Wednesday September 28th 2022. At a short demonstration of the ‘Go Live’ process, Librarian, Ms. Patricia Baptiste noted that UWI Open Campus and UWI students in general can now stay in the comfort of their homes and be able to borrow books online through UWILinC using their University ID card and pick up their books and other materials at the library. In expressing her delight at this new feature of the services offered by the library, Ms. Baptiste noted that the entire process took about five (5)…
The Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force (RSVGPF) has announced that all flags will be flown at half mast until the funeral of the five men that lost their lives in the tragic Sandy Bay accident that took place on Sunday September 11th. “As a mark of respect to the five (5) persons who tragically lost their lives in a motor vehicle accident on September 11, 2022 in Sandy Bay, all concerned are asked to note that national flags must be flown at half-mast until the bodies are laid to rest.” An official release from the RSVGPF stated.…
The National Emergency Management Organisation is reminding the public that based on data collected overthe years, the months of October and November are usually the two months of the hurricane season with record number of heavy rainfall and landslides. Information received from the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Meteorological Services indicates that scattered showers and a moderate chance of isolated thunderstorms are possible tonight into Tuesday as atropical wave and its trailing instability affect St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Sea conditions are also expected to deteriorate as the islands experience strong wind speeds of up to 40 km/h from late…
Minister of Agriculture Hon. Saboto Ceasar is currently in Antigua and Barbuda with a delegation for the 21st Eastern Caribbean Ministerial Meeting on Fisheries and the Sustainable Use of Marine Resources. The Delegation headed by the minister left the state on Sunday October 2 and includes Director of Grenadines Affairs Edwin Snagg and Deputy Director of Grenadines Affairs Carlos Williams. The two-day meeting, which convened today October 3, will deal with issues of food security, sustainable development as it relates to the marine resources as well as coastal and marine protection in the face of climate change. The Agriculture minister…
Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines: On Thursday, September 29th, 2022, Dr. the Hon. Godwin Friday, Leader of the Opposition and President of the NDP, while visiting Toronto held a town hall meeting with members of the Vincentian community there.Dr. Friday spoke movingly about the outstanding assistance mobilized by the Vincentian community in Toronto in response to the eruption of La Soufriere volcano last year and thanked those present for their contributions. He assured them that their efforts were well-received and helped many people make it through a difficult time. Additionally, Dr. Friday spoke about current conditions in SVG, including…
The exalted altar of political correctness By Professor. Richard A. Byron-Cox (PhD) At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic a cycling enthusiast shared his exercise regime on social media. Being a fitness freak I enquired whether cycling could help me avoid getting fat during the lockdown. Before the cyclist could respond, in jumps this unknown, accusing me of a litany of crimes. Shocked by this diatribe, I called a friend who explained that I was “fat shaming” people, and that’s politically incorrect. I was stumped! What is fat shaming?! The friend sent a photo of an obese figure, the self-appointed…
Minister of Finance Camillo Gonsalves said that he is lobbying to have the next budget year be one that is focused on roads.Minister Gonsalves while speaking on WEFM’s Issue At Hand program on last Sunday said his encouragement would be to have a budget structure next year that is focused very much focused on the road network. “I am encouraging my colleague ministers—and I’m lobbying the Prime Minister, I’ll use this radio program to lobby him as well—that we make the next year, the next budget year, a roads year. We have some large projects that will be going forward;…
By Donald De Riggs An organized group called the North Leeward Heritage Preservation Front staged a public rally at Fitzhughes on Saturday, October 01, 2022, to protest government’s decision to allow quarry operations to commence at Richmond in the absence of environmental and social impact assessment studies, before a project of this magnitude and duration can legally proceed. Also objecting to the project is the SVG Conservation Fund who wrote the Central Planning division since November 2021, outlining scientific reasons why the project should not go ahead at that location. Letter of Objection_Richmond Jetty and Quarry_ (1)Download The group is…